Richmond Times-Dispatch: The U.S. Postal Service is proposing a new plan in order to keep itself afloat, and the plan involves slower mail in rural ZIP codes across the country. But the agency will not say which post offices will be affected.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Aug. 22 proposed what are being called “operational changes.” Since then, the Richmond Times-Dispatch has sought clarity on the changes, which were outlined in a memo to the Postal Service’s main regulator.
In the memo, DeJoy promised that the changes would “boost service reliability, cost efficiency, and overall productivity,” and save the Postal Service $30 billion over the next decade. The agency has run in the red to the tune of several billion dollars each year on the back of declining mail volumes.